_Apem._ What wouldst thou have to Athens? 285 _Tim._ Thee thither in a whirlwind. If thou wilt, Tell them there I have gold; look, so I have. _Apem._ Here is no use for gold. _Tim._ The best and truest; For here it sleeps, and does no hired harm. _Apem._ Where liest o' nights, Timon?[2519] 290 _Tim._ Under that's above me. Where feed'st thou o'[2520] days, Apemantus?[2520] _Apem._ Where my stomach finds meat; or, rather, where[2521] I eat it. _Tim._ Would poison were obedient and knew my mind![2522] 295 _Apem._ Where wouldst thou send it?[2523] _Tim._ To sauce thy dishes. _Apem._ The middle of humanity thou never knewest, but the extremity of both ends: when thou wast in thy gilt and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much curiosity; in[2524] 300 thy rags thou know'st none, but art despised for the contrary. There's a medlar for thee; eat it.[2525] _Tim._ On what I hate I feed not.[2525] _Apem._ Dost hate a medlar?[2525] _Tim._ Ay, though it look like thee.[2525][2526] 305 _Apem._ An thou hadst hated meddlers sooner, thou[2525][2527] shouldst have loved thyself better now. What man didst[2525] thou ever know unthrift that was beloved after his means?[2525] _Tim._ Who, without those means thou talk'st of, didst[2525] thou ever know beloved?[2525] 310 _Apem._ Myself.[2525] _Tim._ I understand thee; thou hadst some means to[2525] keep a dog.[2525] _Apem._ What things in the world canst thou nearest compare to thy flatterers? 315 _Tim._ Women nearest; but men, men are the things themselves. What wouldst thou do with the world, Apemantus, if it lay in thy power? _Apem._ Give it the beasts, to be rid of the men. _Tim._ Wouldst thou have thyself fall in the confusion of 320 men, and remain a beast with the beasts?[2528] _Apem._ Ay, Timon.